The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'

August 14, 2019

  • Venezuela News Links 14 August 2019

    14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age Venezuela Retains Political Control after New US Coercive Measures https://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuela-retains-political-control-new-us-coercive-measures/5686354 13 Million Expected to Sign Petition Against US’s Venezuela Blockade https://www.globalresearch.ca/13-million-expected-sign-petition-against-us-venezuela-blockade/5686360 Continue reading

  • Iran News Links 14 August 2019

    14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age Why Gold Prices Are About to Skyrocket Even Higher https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-gold-prices-about-skyrocket-even-higher/5686403 Is the Geopolitical Chessboard Now Digital? https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/14/is-geopolitical-chessboard-now-digital/ Continue reading

  • Venezuelan Opposition Journalist Served as Agent for US, UK Gov’t

    Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Moncada revealed evidence that well-known opposition ‘journalist’ Nelson Bocaranda has served as a “local agent” of the United States and United Kingdom governments since the 1980s in a series of tweets Sunday and Monday. Continue reading

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  • China News Links 14 August 2019

    14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Today’s Links 14 August 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/08/todays-links_14.html Hong Kong: “path of no return” – either class struggle or defeat http://www.marxist.com/hong-kong-path-of-no-return-either-class-struggle-defeat.htm Continue reading

  • Jeffrey Epstein News Links 14 August 2019

    14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back US media continues to downplay suspicions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/14/us-media-continues-to-downplay-suspicions-about-jeffrey-epsteins-death/ Epstein’s “Madam” Found: Ghislaine Maxwell Living With Tech CEO in Mansion http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/g4_bIL8e8G0/epsteins-madam-found-ghislaine-maxwell-living-with-tech-ceo-in-mansion.html Continue reading

  • Violent Protests In Hong Kong Reach Their Last Stage

    The protests, as originally started in June, were against a law that would have allowed criminal extraditions to Taiwan, Macao and mainland China. The law was retracted and the large protests have since died down. What is left are a few thousand students who, as advertised in a New York Times op-ed, intentionally seek to… Continue reading

  • Zephyr and the development of high-altitude military surveillance drones

    The Guardian reported recently that the Pentagon’s Southern Command are testing stratospheric balloons over the US, to combat drug trafficking and support homeland security. The news has caused concern among US civil liberties advocates angry that American citizens will be being monitored in these tests. However, these balloons are just one of a new type… Continue reading

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  • Warnings ancient and modern by Victor Grossman

    The wise priest Laocoön, old legends say, vainly warned against the famous “Trojan horse”. A hostile god sent giant serpents which strangled him and the big wooden present was opened. The soldiers hidden inside opened Troy’s gates so the Greek battalions could rush in, kill the men, enslave the women and destroy the city. Its… Continue reading

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  • Australia’s Pacific Play: Denying Climate Change and Boosting China’s Threat by Dr Binoy Kampmark

    Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbours.  Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of gate keeper and monitor of regional instability, a condescending, often paternalistic agent. At stages, it has also entertained more direct colonial interests.  For almost seven decades, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea,… Continue reading

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  • The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup

    Activists make the case that this widely  used pesticide is wreaking havoc on the earth, killing not just weeds but multiple species, including our own Continue reading

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